Wall Quotes

• America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Important
  • Health

• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Book
  • Space

• The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Wall

• Who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Wall
  • Ways
  • Wall Street

• People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Financial
  • Stock
  • Hood

• No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Long
  • Country
  • Stop

• Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Past

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • Writing
  • Light
  • Shadow

• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.

  

  Rain
  • Fall
  • Dark
  • Cold

• There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Wonder
  • Wall

• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friend

• If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Wall Street
  • Main Street
  • Crashes

• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Time
  • Door
  • Wall

• Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • War
  • College

• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Father
  • Challenge
  • Attitude

• Politics does not bother corporate power. Whoever wins, they win. Both parties represent Wall Street over Main Street. Wall Street is embedded in the federal government.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Power
  • Wall

• I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Great
  • Wall

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